00:00Tim Cain is too unhappy with the way gaming is discussed online to ever visit a forum again.
00:05He explains this in an April 22nd YouTube video with the educational title,
00:08Why I Don't Post on Forums Anymore.
00:10The short of it is that gamers have become mean old dogs.
00:13Decades ago, I used to post on Usenet sites all the time, Cain says.
00:17I'd post about my D&D games.
00:19I'd post about Fallout in the 90s when we were doing that.
00:22All this slowed down about 15 years ago and pretty much stopped.
00:25The issue Cain explains is anger seems to now dominate forum conversations.
00:30Their anger forward, he says.
00:31It was always the case that there were some people on the forums who were venting.
00:34I get it.
00:35I mean, way back in Usenet, you can find people who were upset because they couldn't get Fallout to install.
00:40Still, Cain was able to talk to these grumpy people and figure out a solution that both of them were
00:44happy with.
00:45Now, he thinks it's nearly impossible to come to an amicable understanding like that.
00:48It just seems like a lot of people want to hate things.
00:51That kind of environment, I don't think is conducive to getting better games, he says.
00:55I used to have these great conversations with people on forums, Cain remembers wistfully.
00:59Now that's all gone.
01:00It's all boiled down to this is stupid, this person's lazy, this is all woke, and it doesn't lead anywhere.
01:06Is this something you've noticed too?
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